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Patented 001;.13, 1886.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH MAYER, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,131, dated October13, 1885.

Application filed May 26, 1885. Serial No. 166,689.

fication.

Corsets have been made of wire woven in the form ,of a netting; but thestrands crossing each other are too rigid,and the wire is liable tobreak and to injure the person. In other cases the woven corset has hadlongitudinal wires introduced into the fabric and the entire corsetsized, dampened, and pressed. In this corset the Wire is liable toinjury by the sizing and dampening, and the corset has the wiresinterspersed throughout its woven material.

My invention relates to an improved corsetstiffening formed of bands ofstrong corset fabric having fine longitudinal wires woven into thefabric,so as to be adapted to insertion -between the various sections ofwoven ma terial of which the corset is composed, and sewed into placewith such sections. Thereby the fine steel wires form the stiffening inplace of whalebones and other materials, and the wires, being firmlyinclosed in the heavy woven strips,are not liable to injury, and thewires cannot penetrate the wearer, even should one break in consequenceof being in troduced, as in strips with a backing of plain corsetmaterial.

In the drawings, Figurel representsa halfcorsct with my improved stripsapplied to the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the stiffening-stripseparately, andFig. 2 is a section of the samein larger size.

The strip a is made of ordinary corset material, with the exception thatthe fine steel wires 7) areintroduced and woven in firmly in place of awarp or weft thread. The wires are preferably woven in at intervals,theintervening portions being woven as ordinary corset fabric. Thesestiffening-strips are of suitable width-say an inch to an inch and ahalf,more or lessand by preference the edge portions of these strips areplain fabric of sufficient width forsewing into place between thecorset-sections without the sewing coming into contact with the finesteel wires.

The stiffening-strips are of suitable length,

(No model.)

or they are easily cut off to the required length; and it is preferableto make use of a short metallic binding strip or clasp at the top andbottom ends of each stiffening-strip, as at H, so as to inclose the endsof the fine steel wires. If, however, the steel wires are intro duced inplace of weft-threads,such wires may be of less length between the bendsat the ends than the height of the corset, so that each stiffening-stripwill only have one wire laid up and down throughout the same.

The corset itself is to be of any desired size or construction,and thewoven corset fabric is out out into sections of the proper shapes, andthe edges folded back, as usual, so as to be sewed together, thestilfening-strips a being introduced between the respective sections.

Corsets as ordinarly made are generally of two thicknesses of wovenmaterial. I prefer in introducing my improved stiffening-strips to applybehind the same a strip of ordinary woven corset material, as at E, andto introduce these between the folded edges of the sections F F G G, asseen in Fig. 3, and to stitch the fabrics together at the lines 2' z,thereby making the corset of uniform strength throughout, and the stripE becomes a backing between the wires and the person.

I do not claim a corset having cords ofstifi' jute, hemp, or similarmaterial; and I am aware that machine-belts have been woven with wirestrands. By my improvement the fine wires are employed to keep thecorset from folding into ridges at the waist and to give elasticity, andbeing in the woven fabric and employed in strips, the improvement can beavailed of with any shape or character of corset.

I claim as my invention- The combination, in a corset,with the wovensections, of a backing-strip, E, and a stifiening-strip, a, composed ofawoven fabric with fine wires introduced therein at intervals,substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 25th day of May, A. D. 1885.

JOSEPH MAYER.

WVitnesses GEO. T. PINCKNEY, WALLACE L. SERRELL.

